BRADFORD CONSERVATION COMMISSION
Meeting Minutes
Date: July 15, 2007
Time: 7:00 p.m., Town Library
Present: Brooks McCandlish, Meg Fearnley, Nathaniel Bruss, Ann Eldridge, Amy Blitzer (seated for Perry Teele), Andrea LaMoreaux (Quorum met)
Visitor: Phil LaMoreaux
I. Previous Meeting Minutes
a. June meeting minutes were reviewed, moved to accept, seconded, and approved by all.
II. Treasurer Report
a. No money spent since last meeting.
b. No financial papers available.
III. Housekeeping
a. Upcoming Workshops
i. Carol and Nathaniel going to COVERTS workshop
b. Upcoming Educational Programs
i. Meg talked to group about bat die-off presentation.
c. HPCC grant update
i. We were not awarded the grant. Lost points for not addressing regionality of project.
1. Committee discussed whether or not to appeal the decision.
2. Committee discussed applying for other grants.
3. Action Item: Andrea will forward most recent Moose Plate grant notice to Ann.
d. Forestry Notification
i. Commission received one.
e. Correspondence
i. Received conservation program information from Sununu
IV. Planning Board Comments
a. Tax Map 6, Lot 51-1, Sunset Hill Road and Hogg Hill Road
i. Creating 2 lots out of 1.
ii. Driveway in a wetland buffer.
iii. Looking for a wetlands “conditional use” permit
iv. Doesn’t appear to be a better place for the driveway.
v. Commission recommends: Use design, construction, and maintenance methods to minimize detrimental impacts to wetland, such as directing runoff from wetland resource areas. In the information given to Commission, information about design and construction methods were not included.
vi. Comments due to Planning Board by August 12, 2008.
b. Phil (Planning Board Chair) asked what is the most effective way to get comments from Conservation Commission
i. The Commission talked about extending the comment period.
ii. Andrea suggested that all Planning Board applications be scanned in electronically into PDF and emailed at one time to all town committees for review.
V. Natural Inventory
a. Committee discussed how to move forward with inventory without the grant funding.
i. Ann would like to have a town-wide build-out project conducted.
ii. Brooks would like to see natural resources map overlay on tax map.
iii. Ann would like to look at ordinances and identify where more protection is needed.
iv. Brooks suggested that the commission pull together a request for proposals about what we would like the project to accomplish.
v. Looks like SPACE can assist (possibly with funding) to help towns determine “cost of services” analysis
vi. Action Item: Ann will find some RFP examples, and Brooks will draft an RFP for our next meeting.
vii. Action Item: Ann will contact Digit Taylor about other grant funding sources.
Meeting adjourned at 8:15 pm. Respectfully submitted by Andrea LaMoreaux